Oldschool Monstrous Cavalry greens

If ponies aren't badass enough for you... Monstrous cavalry for the Dwarf veteran knights and future characters. Landgriffons by John Pickford

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Asslessman

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This is very bad, I mean real bad... not the models of course, they're wonderful, what's bad isthat I'm considering painting I've never really wanted to paint. That's bad, Shame on you 2 guys, stop making compelling stuff please.
 

mbh

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the riders are from his line of models


WK...please never stop making models. These are excellent.
 
For several years I have depleated the little ones college funds to purshase his most wonder, highly detailed figures, full of character figures. I can not say enought about how satisfied I am as a customer, a painter, and a gamer.

Cheers keep them coming White Knight!!!
 
By popular demand, a look at the relative size of the landgriffons to a humansized rider. As you can see, the size in itself works well enough, but the crouched pose of the feline paws make it look a bit low to the ground compared to a warhorse.

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Erny

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They remind me of the old marauder Chaos griffon:

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It woudln't take much to stick some wings on these.
 
Erny beat me to it...

If these are still greens, any chance of leaving a hole for a pair of wings, beneath/between the saddle and the forelegs, like on this Marauder one below? How about separate wings?

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Anyone preferring to field these as not Demi-Gryphs could easily fill in the hole.

Are the crests the ones for the Old School Renaissance Foot-knights?
 
The crests are converted from the mounted dwarf Knights helmets (mostly).

No holes as it wouldn't be seemly if used without wings but the base models will be used to convert 1 or 2 winged griffons from later on.
 
Dwarf Knights on Landgriffons released
It's been a long time coming, but the Landgriffon mounts for the Dwarf Knights, that I have previewed as greens, have just been released by The Assault Group in their webshop.

You can read the full announcement below, with more pics on the TAG site: http://theassaultgroup.co.uk/12624-2 :

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Added to our Dwarf Empire range of white metal miniatures today are the long awaited Land Griffon mounts for our dwarf Knightly Orders.

The original Dwarf knights we inherited from the White Knight’s Miniature Imperium are mounted on very small, sweet looking armoured ponies.

These Land Griffons are a much more serious mounts. Mixing fearsome bird beaks and claws, with the hind quarters of huge wild cats.

ABOUT THE LAND GRIFFONS
There are four variants of these fabulous beasts to mount our Dwarves on. We’ll add them randomly to the 13 codes of minis, making sure that no two similar mounts go together in the packs.

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Land Griffons

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Land Griffon Scale Shot

We’ve chosen to paint ours as Leib Knights, on Snowy Owls/Snow leopards, but there are also Imperial knight and Boar knight regalia for the models.

The possible combinations of birds (eagles, parrots, ravens) and big cats (lions, tigers, jaguars etc) leads to multiple mouthwatering painting possibilities.

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Boar Regalia

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Imperial Regalia

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Leib Knight Regalia

ABOUT THE KNIGHTS

The Knights are taken from our existing Dwarf Empire range.

Thirteen different packs of miniatures with two 28mm sized rider models in each pack.

Once again there is a huge variety of modeling possibilities, with four basic body types;

The three Knightly Orders; Imperial, Leib and Boar Knights, have five different heads and shields each…

…and are armed with two variants of lances for each of the Orders, or scythes or morningstars for Leib and Boars respectively.

There are also three Command groups representing the various Orders.

Full SKU and pack details
DEM075 Imperial Dwarf Knight with lance I, mounted on Land Griffons
DEM076 Imperial Dwarf Knight with lance II, mounted on Land Griffons
DEM077 Imperial Dwarf Knight Command, mounted on Land Griffons
DEM078 Dwarf Boar Knight with lance I, mounted on Land Griffons
DEM079 Dwarf Boar Knight with lance II, mounted on Land Griffons
DEM080 Dwarf Boar Knight with morningstar I, mounted on Land Griffons
DEM081 Dwarf Boar Knight with morningstar II, mounted on Land Griffons
DEM082 Dwarf Boar Knight Command, mounted on Land Griffons
DEM083 Dwarf Lieb Knight with lance I, mounted on Land Griffons
DEM084 Dwarf Lieb Knight with lance II, mounted on Land Griffons
DEM085 Dwarf Lieb Knight with scythe I, mounted on Land Griffons
DEM086 Dwarf Lieb Knight with scythe II, mounted on Land Griffons
DEM087 Dwarf Lieb Knight Command, mounted on Land Griffons
These packs retail at £20

There are also five Unit Builders, ten model sets, at discounted prices.

DEM-SB29 Imperial Dwarf Knights mounted on Land Griffons with lances unit builder
DEM-SB30 Dwarf Boar Knights mounted on Land Griffons with lances unit builder
DEM-SB31 Dwarf Boar Knights mounted on Land Griffons with morningstars unit builder
DEM-SB32 Dwarf Lieb Knights mounted on Land Griffons with lances unit builder
DEM-SB33 Dwarf Lieb Knights mounted on Land Griffons with scythes unit builder
These sets retail £90

THE PAYBACK
Thanks for reading this far down the scroll, here is the payback.

We’re quite glad that we don’t have to push all these tricky pack choices through the ‘somewhat clunky’ Kickstarter system as we have done for the last few releases.

This also saves us money… and we can pass that saving on to you… so for a 10% discount on these products, use the DISCOUNT CODE given below before the end of the month (31/03/2018)

ThankgoodnessthisisntaKickstarter10
 
Most tasteful sculpts! I've long wished to see monstrous cavalry units given an Oldhammer spin, and it's working perfectly well. Best of luck! Am a fan of White Knight models and will eventually put in an order.

Now, one cannot help but wonder how 80s style Ogre monstrous cavalry would look like...
 
Now there's a question. I do still have plans to add some 80s style ogres to the range, but I didn't consider mounts for them. Not sure what it should have to be.
 
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